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Premium Member The Unbroken Space Between

Time... is a transcendental sense of being
which exists in a perpetual passing that's relative
in a ceaseless motion that never moves
where tomorrows vanish and today becomes past
Time is an interval traveled across dimensions
   of lineal value
of what is felt and what is unknown
like the timeless sensation of a kiss
measured in lengths of whispered breath
   and heartbeats
Time is the gravity of yearning between lovers apart
as eyes meet from a distance
and moments become duration undivided

It is the scale used when seasons change into seasons
and movements are counted in days
   into perpetuity
time is beyond our understanding
that we move within
using clock hands as reality
as we feel what can never be touched or measured
   only imagined
except for the unbroken space
   between birth and death


Elegy 'N' Eulogy For Mohammed Ali Clay

A very famous champion,
 an inspiring enthusiastic man was he
Who has  now departed , yet is quoted, 
for many pearls of wisdom
Vociferous king , 
of the boxing ring
A sports star
And such a sport too.
A motivating peace star who shot up to deserved stardom
The earth be proud of such mortal "clay"
Who swayed and reigned hearts, 
as well as the pugilist's kingdom





Notes: about the boxing Great:

These below are the selected facts about Muhammad Ali that I personally found very interesting:
First of all that he had the same birthday as my beloved bro Alihur i.e 17th Jan,

The info below is copied from Wikipedia:
Muhammed Ali Clay
Other names
The Greatest
The People's  champion
The Louisville lip 


Children9, including Laila Ali2]

Awards

5 time Ring magazine fighter of the year3-time lineal heavyweight championSports Illustrated 'Sportsman of the Century'BBC 'Sports Personality of the Century'CSHL Double Helix Medal Honoree (2006)Presidential Citizens MedalPresidential Medal of Freedom[4]International Boxing Hall of Fame[5]Hollywood Walk of Fame[6]


Cassius Clay was born and raised inLouisville, Kentucky, and began training as anamateur boxer when he was 12 years old. At 18, he won a gold medal in the light heavyweight division at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, and converted to Islam shortly afterwards. At 22, he won the WBAand WBC heavyweight titles from Sonny Liston  in 1964. Clay then changed his legal name from Cassius Clay, which he called his "slave name", to Muhammad Ali, and gave a message of racial pride for African Americans and resistance to white domination during the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.[12][13]

He was known to for freestyled with rhyme schemes and spoken word poetry,  boxing and as political poetry for his activism,
Form: Elegy

Premium Member Time

Time is not lineal – in fact,
often stops and starts with
the pendulum of the heart

races ahead when joy

suffering can latch on and
drag with all the sympathy
of a rabid pit-bull – or divorce
lawyer

don’t know that I want to imagine
eternity – thinking it best I leave
that burden to God....
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All Refrains Are Not Poetry

We refrain from thinking of Time
as a limited commodity; but for
mortals, it may very well be.  We tan
away on beaches, the Crap Tables
of Vegas – arguing with our loved
ones – tick, tick, tick.  Overworking
can be negative. “Take time to be Holy” --
We imagine a blessed eternity to 
compensate for questionable predilections. 
Wasting of Time.  Wasting of Time. 
Tall steeples and stained glass pictorials
are spiritually transcending.  Let’s hope,
if there is a heaven, that heaven is 
yet indulgent of vintage intoxications.

Premium Member To Be Young Again

I like to give all things
living personality -- 

wind, for instance, not just
complex science

but conscious velocity -- 

mindfully determining its own speed
and direction... 
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Time is not all lineal
you know -- 
I often travel freely back
and forth,  
casual jogs over stored memories -- 

The good ones require no careful stepping
While the bad can be minefields -- 

I wonder how you recall me?

Perhaps a mixture of pain and pleasure?

An occasional vintage along with the bicarbonate

Like those deeply grooved records we wildly 
Danced to:
My confession, I yet listen to them…
Thinking fondly of you, ignoring the hisses and
Scratches.  To be young again would be enough!

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